Guy Mannering; or, The astrologer. By the author of 'Waverley'.

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Página 59 No doubt, when this learned gentleman bad possessed himself of the axe, he
hewed the laws with it to some purpose. Mr Bertram was not quite so ignorant of
English grammar as his worshipful predecessor; but Augustus Pease himself
could ...

Página 190 Mrs Van-beest Brown! The name has little to recommend it. — What children we
are ! » Eighth Extract. « It is all over now, Matilda! — I shall never have courage to
tell my father — nay, most deeply do £ fear he has already learned ...

Página 192 Our good hostess, as [ learned from a bustling conversation between her
housekeeper and her, had no expectation of seeing him for a week, but I rather
suspect his arrival was no surprise to his friend Mr Mervyn. His manner to me was
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Página 212 languages. Of music she knew little or nothing, but her new friend undertook to
give her lessons; in exchange for which, she learned from Lucy the habit of
walking, and the art of riding, and the courage necessary to defy the season.
Mannering ...

Página 221 Besides, I learned that our ci-devant colonel was on full retreat for Scotland,
carrying off poor Julia along with him. I understand from those who conduct the
heavy haggage, that he takes his winter quarters at a place called Wood- bourne,
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Página 150 - The bell strikes one. We take no note of time, But from its loss. To give it then a tongue, Is wise in man. As if an angel spoke, I feel the solemn sound. If heard aright, It is the knell of my departed hours: Where are they?

Página 31 - They live no longer in the faith of reason! But still the heart doth need a language, still Doth the old instinct bring back the old names, And to yon starry world they now are gone, Spirits or gods, that used to share this earth With man as with their friend...

Página 160 - Entreat me not to leave thee, or to return from following after thee: for whither thou goest, I will go; and where thou lodgest, I will lodge; thy people shall be my people, and thy God my God: where thou diest, will I die, and there will I be buried: the Lord do so to me, and more also, if aught but death part thee and me.

Página 31 - The intelligible forms of ancient poets, The fair humanities of old religion, The power, the beauty, and the majesty, That had their haunts in dale, or piny mountain, Or forest by slow stream, or pebbly spring. Or chasms and wat'ry depths ; all these have vanished They live no longer in the faith of reason...

Página 128 - God, the Maker of all laws, Who hath commanded us we should not kill. And yet we say we must, for Reputation ! What honest man can either fear his own, Or else will hurt another's reputation? Fear to do base unworthy things is valour ; If they be done to us, to suffer them Is valour too.

Página 66 - Many murders have been discovered among them; and they are not only a most unspeakable oppression to poor tenants (who if they give not bread, or some kind of provision to perhaps forty such villains in one day, are sure to be insulted by them) but they rob many poor people who live in houses distant from any neighbourhood. In years of plenty...

Página 82 - Yes ; there's thirty yonder, from the auld wife of an hundred to the babe that was born last week, that ye have turned out o' their bits o' bields, to sleep with the tod and the black-cock in the muirs ! Ride your ways, Ellangowan.